Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
The Alchemist feat. Earl Sweatshirt’s “E. Coli” (2018) is built on The Lovers’s “La Prima Volta” (1976) — a sample that travelled 42 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
The Lovers · 1976
The hit that sampled it
The Alchemist feat. Earl Sweatshirt · 2018
Cue up “La Prima Volta” and listen at 03:01–03:24 — that’s the passage The Alchemist feat. Earl Sweatshirt lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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